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Analyzing Spelling Errors By Linguistic Features Among Children With Learning Disabilities, Christine Johnson
Analyzing Spelling Errors By Linguistic Features Among Children With Learning Disabilities, Christine Johnson
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In order to spell fluently and accurately, phonology, orthography, and morphology must be integrated and stored into long term memory (Berninger & Richards, in press; Berninger, Nagy, Tanimoto, Thompson, Abbott, 2015). Children with dysgraphia, dyslexia, and OWL-LD have specific deficits in linguistic processing that impede the cross-mapping of these linguistic elements. This study analyzes the frequency and nature of spelling errors produced by children with dysgraphia, dyslexia, and OWL-LD during an academic writing task in order to determine if known deficits in linguistic processing affect the type and severity of spelling errors made by these children.
The present study analyzed …